Turpentine-separator.



D. B. SPHALER & B. FLBRYAN.

TURPENTINE SEPARATOR. APPLICATION FILED MAIL-,2, 1910.

Patented Nov. 1,1910;

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS THE name's PETERS c0., WASHINGTON. n. c.

OF TAF'I, FLORIDA.

TURPENTINE SEPARATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 1, 1910.

Application filed March 2, 1910. Serial No. 546,780.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, DAVIS B. SPHALER and BENJAMIN F. BRYAN, citizens of the United States, and residents of Taft, in the county of Orange and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Turpentine-Separators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement in turpentine separators designed fornse in separating the turpentine as it is delivered from a still from the water, sediment and other impurities and permit the delivery of the turpentine to a cask or other receptacle freed from the said impurities; and the 1nvention consists in certain novel constructions and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a detail perspective View of the separator, Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section thereof, a portion of the still and of the barrel and the water receptacle being shown in dotted lines, and Fig. 3 is a detail vertical section showing the overflow from the intermediate chamber. I

The still A has a discharge at B which delivers into an inlet compartment 0 of the separator, said compartment 0 being alongside an intermediate compartment D and separated therefrom by a partition E which is perforated to permit the circulation of the liquid between the compartments C and D. This partition E operates mechanically to separate certain impurities, such for instance as chips, pieces of bark and the like and also operates to quiet the ebullition and turbulence of the liquid discharged from the still so that the liquid within the compartment D will be comparatively quiet so the turpentine and water can separate and the water drop to the bottom where it may be discharged through an outlet F which may, as shown, be in the form of a faucet while the turpentine may be discharged through an opening G near the top of the outlet compartment D into the compartment H, whence it may be drawn through the outlet I into the cask or other receptacle J as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings.

As shown in Fig. 2, the outlet I from the compartment H is located at the bottom thereof and such bottom slopes laterally in both directions toward the outlet as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 of the drawing. We provide an overflow at K from the intermediate compartment or chamber D, such overflow being in the form of a tube open at its upper end a short distance below the top of the compartment D and having at its lower end a discharge pipe K which may deliver to a barrel or other suitable receptacle. The faucet I is arranged to deliver at I into the barrel J and has a lever I for operating its valve through the aid of a float I arranged in the barrel and having a rod I extending up through the bung hole and connected with the lever I so that when the barrel J fills the float I will be lifted and will tilt the lever I to close the faucet I. The discharge pipe I has a valve at I which may be manually controlled.

lVe claim:

1. The separator herein described comprising an inlet compartment, an outlet compartment and an intermediate compartment between the inlet and outlet compartments, an overflow pipe in the intermediate con1 partment, a perforated partition between the inlet compartment and the intermediate compartment, an outlet from the upper end of the intermediate compartment to the outlet compartment, an outlet at the lower end of the intermediate compartment, a discharge faucet at the lower end of the outlet compartment and having a projecting valve operating lever and a float for operating the same, all substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. A turpentine separator comprising a pan like body open at the top and divided into three compartments with partitions dividing the inlet, intermediate and outlet compartments, the inlet and intermediate compartments occupying one end of the pan and the outlet compartmentthe other end of the pan, the latter having a discharge at its lower end and a bottom inclining downwardly toward such discharge, the partition between the inlet and intermediate compartments being perforated and a discharge opening being-provided near the top of the partition between the intermediate and outlet compartments, the intermediate compartment being provided With a discharge at its lower endrand also having an overflow tube opening at its upper end Within the intermediate compartment below the top of such compartment and having at its lower end a discharge pipe, 511 substantially is and fair the purposes set forth.

DAVIS B. SPI-IALER. BENJAMIN F. BRYAN. Witnesses:

WILLIS L. PALMER, LE ROY B. GILES. 

